Haku Maki日本, 1924–2000
Ren - 4
关于作品
Here Maki created a mass of random, tangled strokes that cannot be decoded. Yet they evoke cursive writing in Japanese and Chinese, tempting viewers to try to read them. To those unfamiliar, Chinese characters are logograms—characters or “pictures” that represent a word. While these characters might seem to possess an infinite number of possible stroke combinations, in practice there are only eight types of basic strokes that are used. Maki’s invented cursive makes use of these strokes, which makes the whole appear writing-like, but each character has too few or too many strokes, which renders it illegible.
明尼阿波利斯美術館
作品信息
- 馆藏编号
- 2019.78.197
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- 明尼阿波利斯美術館：博物馆的开放数据 · 8天前获取
- 图片： 明尼阿波利斯美術館 — © Maki Haku
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